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Review
. 2020 Dec;27(2_suppl):46-51.
doi: 10.1177/2047487320961980.

Role of gender, age and BMI in prognosis of heart failure

Susanna Sciomer  1 , Federica Moscucci  1 , Elisabetta Salvioni  2 , Giovanni Marchese  3 , Maurizio Bussotti  3 , Ugo Corrà  4 , Massimo F Piepoli  5   6
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Review

Role of gender, age and BMI in prognosis of heart failure

Susanna Sciomer et al. Eur J Prev Cardiol. 2020 Dec.

Abstract

The prognostic stratification of heart failure remains an urgent need for correct clinical management of the affected patients. In fact, due to the high mortality and morbidity rates, heart failure constantly requires an updated and careful management of all aspects that characterise the disease. In addition to the well-known clinical, laboratory and instrumental characteristics that affect the prognosis of heart failure, gender, age and body mass index have a different impact and deserve specific insights and clarifications. At this scope, the metabolic exercise cardiac kidney index score research group has produced several works in the past, trying to identify the role of these specific factors on the prognosis of heart failure. In particular, the different performances in the cardiopulmonary exercise test of specific categories of heart failure patients, such as women, elderly and obese or overweight individuals, have requested dedicated evaluations of metabolic exercise cardiac kidney index score power.

Keywords: BMI; Gender; age; chronic heart failure; metabolic exercise cardiac kidney index (MECKI) score.

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Declaration of conflicting interests: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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